2014 Lamborghini Huracan LP 610-4: The One We’ve Been Waiting Half a Century For?

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On this Episode of Ignition

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00:00 How you feel about the Lamborghini Huracan

00:02 is largely determined by your mental age.

00:05 The poster hanging 12 year old within all of us

00:07 will look at it and say, wow!

00:10 But the sober, rational adult will look at it and say,

00:13 well, it's just an overpriced Audi R8

00:15 in a Kuntosh body kit.

00:17 Also, it's so low to the ground it scrapes on shadows.

00:21 And it rides like an epileptic horse.

00:24 Plus, this paint, it's so obnoxious

00:27 they might as well call the color Kanye.

00:30 But that 12 year old might turn 13 and say,

00:34 dude, there's a 610 horsepower, naturally aspirated V10

00:39 mounted right behind your head,

00:41 connected to a lightning quick dual clutch transmission

00:45 and all wheel drive grip.

00:47 How old am I, mentally?

00:50 You're gonna find out in about 20 seconds.

00:52 (car engine revving)

00:55 (upbeat music)

00:58 (car engine revving)

01:01 (electronic beeping)

01:12 (car engine revving)

01:18 (car engine revving)

01:21 Yeah, so I'm a middle-aged man

01:36 living out my 12 year old fantasy.

01:39 This car, the Huracan.

01:42 (laughing)

01:46 Oh man, okay, what are we talking about?

01:49 Looks, there isn't a bad angle.

01:52 I've been staring at this thing for a week

01:53 and it works, it just works.

01:56 It's actually a nice homage

01:58 to a lot of great Lambos from the past.

02:00 The front, clearly you see the Kuntosh,

02:03 especially there's these triangular sections on the hood.

02:06 The mirror, especially from the rear.

02:08 Now, if you look at the rear of a mirror,

02:10 and I try and do that once a week,

02:11 you will notice they kind of took the rear end of a mirror

02:14 and flipped it upside down.

02:16 And that's the rear of the Huracan.

02:18 It just works.

02:20 I've had a Lamborghini hanging on a wall

02:24 where I've lived since I was about 11.

02:27 And much to my wife's chagrin, that's still true.

02:30 I would get a poster of this.

02:33 I would get a Huracan poster.

02:35 Just knockout design, knockout design.

02:40 Speaking of knockouts, we gotta talk about performance.

02:45 (engine revving)

02:48 The Huracan can hit 60 miles an hour in 2.8 seconds.

02:55 Extremely quick for a naturally aspirated car.

02:58 This Lamborghini's quarter mile time is ridiculous.

03:02 10.6 seconds at 132.8 miles per hour.

03:07 That quarter mile time means,

03:11 not only is this faster than a GTR, a Nismo GTR,

03:15 this is the quickest accelerating,

03:18 naturally aspirated car we've ever tested.

03:20 In fact, the only cars we've ever tested

03:22 that are quicker than the Huracan are the Bugatti Veyron,

03:26 the McLaren P1, and the Porsche 918.

03:30 And all those start over a million bucks.

03:32 And that's just straight line.

03:37 This thing corners too.

03:39 (engine revving)

03:41 It has a max lateral acceleration of 1.02 G's.

03:46 And the Huracan can run around our figure eight

03:48 in 23 seconds flat with a remarkable average G of .98.

03:53 So numbers are one thing, and again,

04:00 P zeroes are not the most aggressive tires

04:02 we could've had on the car.

04:04 But what I noticed driving this thing

04:06 around the figure eight is,

04:07 it is by far the most controllable car I've ever figure eighted.

04:12 It'll just do whatever you want.

04:15 My technique, you know, I would come in hot,

04:18 trail brake, and then I would sort of

04:20 rotate the car a little bit,

04:21 and then one steering angle and just right foot

04:25 to steer the car through.

04:26 And then whap it on the way out,

04:28 and oversteer, tire smoke, unbelievable.

04:32 (engine revving)

04:35 You know, Anthony, my camera guy right here,

04:37 this guy can bench press an Audi,

04:38 but I had him squealing like a little girl.

04:41 The thing is just, it's so aggressive.

04:43 (engine revving)

04:45 It's just an amazing vehicle.

04:47 So think about it, Ferrari, 488, turbos,

04:52 McLarens, turbos, Huracan, natural aspiration.

04:57 That makes this the last man standing.

04:59 It's the last naturally aspirated,

05:01 entry level super car you can buy.

05:04 And I applaud Lamborghini for keeping it that way.

05:08 Awesome.

05:08 (engine revving)

05:11 And the sound, I mean, come on.

05:17 Nothing beats natural aspiration.

05:19 (engine revving)

05:22 Not only in terms of sound, and again,

05:27 V10 is not the most melodious engine,

05:29 but I love this one.

05:31 But in terms of revving and then degrading.

05:34 (engine revving)

05:37 And that's part of the reason why it's so controllable,

05:39 is when you do come off the throttle,

05:42 revs drop and then you get real engine braking

05:44 and it's useful and you can use that to control the car.

05:48 What was happening when I was driving the Huracan around,

05:50 early on in the week, the part of my brain

05:53 that tingles when I'm in something really special,

05:56 you know, it was twitching.

05:57 And I'm talking about, you know,

05:59 what happens when you drive cars like the Ferrari,

06:01 the 458 Italia, or the Pagani Huayra.

06:04 And, you know, two of the most incredible machines

06:07 I've ever driven.

06:08 Well, you know what?

06:09 Huracan is just as good.

06:11 If not better.

06:14 (laughs)

06:15 I mean, this is the total package.

06:18 This is a super car.

06:20 (engine revving)

06:24 (engine revving)

06:26 All right, so Randy, brought you out to Big Willow

06:34 with Kermit the Lambo here,

06:36 because I've been driving this car for a week

06:40 and I'm very impressed with it.

06:42 More so than most other cars I've ever driven.

06:45 - You've driven a lot of cars, Terry.

06:47 - I've driven a lot, but I'm worried

06:49 that my opinion of it is too high.

06:52 So I want a pro driver to tell me I'm crazy.

06:54 It's not that good.

06:55 (engine revving)

06:58 (laughs)

07:02 (upbeat music)

07:04 - Look at that thing put power down.

07:14 - Yeah.

07:15 - It feels light to me.

07:17 You said it's 3,400 pounds, right?

07:19 - I think 3,409, yeah.

07:22 It feels like 2,500 pounds.

07:24 It feels light.

07:25 Even though it has stability, it is not understeering.

07:33 It's just a balanced car.

07:35 (engine revving)

07:40 I'm all about the balance.

07:51 You think about like a GTR,

07:53 which is again, a brutal car, fast, capable,

07:57 but you know it's all wheel drive.

07:59 It has the capabilities and more of a GTR,

08:06 but it adds all this fun and this thrill

08:09 and this driving involvement that the GTR does not.

08:13 We're gonna go up this hill.

08:17 (engine revving)

08:20 Yeah, just digs.

08:27 - Every other car we drive here gets all sideways,

08:31 right there on the exit of left-hand turn three.

08:33 - Including the 918, which is all wheel drive.

08:36 - Yeah, that's true.

08:37 - To me, the Huracan is a lot like the Hellcat

08:43 and here's why.

08:44 - Yeah.

08:44 - My whole life, I've been staring at pictures

08:47 of muscle cars and dreaming that they will actually

08:51 be as good as they look, right?

08:53 - I gotcha.

08:54 - They will be really fast and the brakes will be good

08:57 and they'll turn and muscle cars generally stink.

09:00 - Right, and then you drive a '65 Mustang GT.

09:03 - Yeah.

09:04 - It's horrible.

09:05 - And we've both driven a Countach.

09:08 - Horrible.

09:09 - It's the worst car I've ever driven.

09:10 It's still my favorite car,

09:12 but it's a horrible car to drive.

09:14 - So true.

09:15 - And this one though, the Huracan,

09:18 it's about as good looking as a mid-engine car can get.

09:21 - It answers the supercar promise.

09:25 It really is super.

09:26 - Yeah.

09:34 - It doesn't just look super, it drives super.

09:41 - I got one-handed into the corner, hard on the gas.

09:45 I'm talking with my hands.

09:46 This was not the Lamborghini way it was before.

09:49 - No, no.

09:50 - Oh no, it was white knuckle the whole time.

09:53 - I remember I was talking with Valentino Balboni

09:59 about the Countach and I remember we were just discussing

10:03 various aspects of the car and he got to the brakes

10:06 and he makes the sign of the cross.

10:09 But you know, I mean, this car's not like that.

10:13 - It's a modern car that's setting a new standard,

10:17 I think, for handling.

10:19 - I agree.

10:21 - There is a weak point though.

10:22 - Yeah.

10:23 - And maybe because the rest of the car is so good,

10:25 it makes it more obvious, it's the braking.

10:28 The ABS is not as sophisticated as the best other cars

10:33 that we've tried.

10:34 For instance, the good old Corvette, Z06.

10:36 - Yeah, Z06.

10:37 - And the Z28, the humble Camaro Z28.

10:41 This car's ABS allows quite a bit of lock up.

10:46 It doesn't like being pushed too hard, the ABS.

10:50 That's where there's room for improvement on the Huracan,

10:53 is in the brakes.

10:54 - But that's it?

10:56 - That's it.

10:56 Lamborghini was always kind of a wannabe

11:04 when it came to driving.

11:05 They looked cool, they were a little more exotic

11:07 than Ferraris.

11:08 - Sure.

11:09 - But they just didn't drive like a good Ferrari.

11:11 - Right.

11:12 - Well now, the gauntlet has been thrown.

11:15 - All right, we're about to run out of gas,

11:21 so we should probably haul her in.

11:23 While we were refueling, we decided to take a look

11:30 at the tires, and surprise, surprise,

11:32 they were pretty much shot.

11:34 Off came the factory P-Zero's, on went a non-factory set

11:39 of Trofeo R's.

11:40 Hey, blame the Lamborghini engineers, they brought 'em.

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13:20 The Huracan ran around Big Willow's 2.4 mile track

13:26 in one minute, 25.17 seconds.

13:29 Making it quicker than any production car

13:33 we've ever tested, except for one, the Porsche 918 Spyder.

13:37 (dramatic music)

13:42 When Ferruccio Lamborghini founded his car company,

13:47 the promise was that his cars would be better than Ferrari's.

13:51 It took him 52 years, but Lambo finally did it.

14:02 - Boy, I get high, I'm high when I get out of the car.

14:06 I'm high.

14:07 I've got, what are those drugs that come out?

14:10 Adrenaline?

14:10 - I think, something.

14:11 - Pheromones?

14:12 - Something, something's coming out.

14:13 - Proprioceptors are getting tickled.

14:16 - Right.

14:17 - It just makes me feel that good to drive this car hard.

14:20 Oh yeah.

14:23 It's better than any Ferrari I've ever driven.

14:25 And the best Ferrari I ever drove is a 458.

14:29 I've driven a lot of Ferraris too.

14:30 I've driven most of them.

14:31 We're glowing so emulantly about this car

14:36 that it sounds like we're trying to sell them, right?

14:38 They've leapfrogged Ferrari here for a moment.

14:40 We'll see if Ferrari can outdo this car

14:43 with its next generation.

14:46 - If Ferrari ever gives us another car,

14:47 it was a whole other story.

14:49 (laughing)

14:51 Hi there!

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